Clothes-pounder



(No Model.)

No. 231,456. Patented Aug. 24,1880.

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DANIEL M. SKINNER, OF GENTRE SANDWICH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,456, dated August 24, 1880,

Application filed July 6, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL M. SKINNER, of Centre Sandwich, of the county of Carroll and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes- Washers; and 1 d'o'hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a side View, Fig. 2 a bottom or base view, and Figs. 3 and 4 transverse sections, of a washer of my improved kind, the nature of my invention being duly set forth in the claim or claims hereinafter presented.

The said washer consists of a hollow 0r chambered head, A, preferably conicalin shape, it being provided with acorrugated and t'oraminous base or bottom, B. That is to say, the said base has projecting from its lower surface a series of concentric circular ridges, a, and between them the base is provided with numerous fine holes I).

At the central portion of the base there is made through such base a rectangular opening, 0, sufficiently large to admit of a small cake or bar of soap being passed through it into the chamber d. There-is extended across the said hole two or any other suitable number of wires or springs, e, each being fastened at one of its ends to the base. Near each end of the opening 0 a bar, f, is extended across the wires and fastened at its ends to the base, such bars being to prevent the bars 6 from (No model.)

being bent up or forced into the chamber. The smaller end or upper part of the cone A, I provide with a socket, g, to receive the shank of a handle. The wires readily spring aside to admit of the soap being introduced into the chamber, and they keep it in or from escaping from the chamber.

In using the washer, after having placed in it a sufficient quantity of soap,it is to be moved up and down and about within a tub containing clothes or articles to be washed and the necessary amount of water for cleansing them. These movements not only cause the formation of soapsuds in the washer and the discharge of the suds therefrom into the Water and upon the article or articles to be washed, but effect the cleansing of such article and articles without injuring them, as they are liable to be by various kinds of washing-machines in use.

It is not essential that the chamber or head A should be conical, as it may have any other suitable form.

I claim The clothes washer, substantially as described, consisting of the chambered head A, having the corrugated and foraminous base B, provided with the soap-inlet and its wires, all being arranged essentially and to operate in manner and for the purpose as set forth.

DANIEL M. SKINNER.

Witnesses:

ORIN A. GLINES, GEORGE A. BODWELL. 

